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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

Overview of this book

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained step-by-step recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing your site's logo or favicon and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. It starts off with the basics of template design and then digs deep into more complex concepts. It will help you make your site more attractive and user-friendly. You will integrate your site with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube; make your site mobile-friendly with the help of recipes for creating and customizing mobile spreadsheets; and use miscellaneous tricks and tips to get the most out of your website. You get all of this in a simple recipe format that guides you quickly through the steps and explains how it all happened.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Customizing the breadcrumb


The larger your website gets, the more important it is to make use of Joomla!'s breadcrumb feature.

Getting ready

To start redefining your breadcrumb's style, open the template.css file for your template; use the rhuk_milkyway template for this demonstration. This means that your CSS file will be located in the templates\rhuk_milkyway\css directory of your Joomla! installation. If you visit a page other than the home page in your Joomla! website, you'll be able to see the breadcrumb.

As you can see, the rhuk_milkyway template defines the style for the breadcrumb in the template.css file.

span.pathway {
display: block;
margin: 0 20px;
height: 16px;
line-height: 16px;
overflow: hidden;
}

The HTML that defines the breadcrumb for the Features page is as shown:

<div id="pathway">
<span class="breadcrumbs pathway">
<a href="http://example.com/" class="pathway">Home</a>
<img src=" /templates/rhuk_milkyway/images/arrow.png" alt="" /> Features...